Top most popular girls who changed the music industry of the last century

From the mid-nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century in the musical field dominated men. Women were thought to have a role only in music education. So, women wrote music for children and taught them how to play instruments. This was a step forward considering that music in 1825 America only had about 70 pieces, established by women.

But this was not enough for women musicians, and the situation changed dramatically in the 20th century. This century is now considered to be the dawn of "female" music. Many women musicians have become famous, and men are now had to to be reckoned with.

We've compiled a top of the most influential women in foreign music of the last century. They were the inspirations of thousands of women musicians, and it is thanks to them that modern music has become what it is. It is no longer possible to imagine music without at least one of these truly greats women. Their beautiful voices, unrivalled artistry, charisma and determination to prove that women can make music too have won them the appreciation of audiences and immense popularity for all time.

Ma Rainey

Ma Rainey is the most famous performer of early blues. She was the first of her kind to begin recording in a professional studio. Today she is called "the mother of the blues."

Gertrude Pritgett (real name of singer Ma Rainey) began perform at the age of 12 or 14. The singer took her stage name after her marriage to Will Rainey, with whom she founded the very popular duet "Rainey and Rainey".

Between 1923 and 1928, working with the Paramount label, Ma gave life to over one hundred compositions. The woman became renowned for her powerful vocals and her extraordinary in a manner of performance that was very similar to traditional African-American performance.

In 1939, the singer died of a heart attack. At that time she was 53 years old. In 1983, the singer was introduced into the Blues Hall of Fame, and in the early '90s into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Bessie Smith

The first star in the history of blues and jazz to leave a studio heritage and thereby saved her unique vocal talents for posterity. Today, Bessie Smith is widely regarded as one of the most influential blues singers of the 1920s and 1930s.

Smith lost her family very early in life and grew up in extreme poverty. When she was 17 years old, her older brother helped her to find a job dancer the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, where another excellent jazz artist was working at the time. performer Ma Rainey.

She was the one who noticed in Bessie undeniable gift. Rainey tutored the girl in vocal skills, and soon Smith began to successful a career in music.

In 1923, Columbia Records released the first record of the budding jazz star, which was called "Down Hearted Blues". From this record, all subsequent works of the performer enjoyed a great favour successfully and were off the shop shelves in a matter of months.

Throughout her musical career, Bessie Smith has managed to work with such notable musicians as Louis Armstrong, Buster Bailey, Fletcher Henderson, James Johnson, Jack Teagarden, Joe Smith.

As contemporaries later recalled, her singing was. perfectly It had no pathos at all, but at the same time it was an incredibly mesmerising and passionate sound. Each performance of the star gathered full house. Today she is rightfully honoured with the title "Empress of the Blues".

Billie Holiday

This woman is one of the most popular jazz singers who have ever possessed such a powerful and deep understanding and appreciation of the classic blues. In many ways, Holiday's singing style influenced the further development of jazz vocals.

Billie Holiday had enough complex life. In 1927, the girl moved with her mother to New York, where they were immediately arrested on charges of prostitution. At the height of the 1930s Billie began to perform in nightclubs, where in the years of Prohibition could easily get alcohol.

Once Holiday's undeniable talent was spotted producer John Hammond, who helped the aspiring singer arrange her first recording sessions with Benny Goodman in November 1933. But the real glory came to Billy only after sessions with Teddy Wilson's orchestra.

As early as the 1940s and 1950s, Holiday was already performing as a solo an artiste. She composed songs and was active in films. By the end of the 50s, the singer gained a huge reputation and influence in the world of jazz. Billie Holiday's recognisable calling card is rightly considered to be a heartfelt composition called "Strange Fruit".

After the age of thirty, Holiday began to have serious problems with her health. The singer began to abuse illegal substances and alcohol, which affected her voice, which was rapidly losing its former flexibility. The incomparable jazz star died in July 1959 in New York at the age of 44. In 1987, Billie Holiday was honoured a posthumous Grammy for his achievements.

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald is widely regarded as having the most unique three-octave vocal range in the history of jazz. Today she's called greatest and "first lady of jazz."

In a glittering 50-year career, Fitzgerald released About 90 albums, both solo and in tandem with other jazz geniuses, notably Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Quincy Jones, Count Basie, Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson. In her lifetime, the performer sold out over 40 million records of his own.

At first, Fitzgerald had a hard time pushing her way to fame. She wasn't wanted sign contract. This was once said by jazz drummer, bandleader and Ella's first guide to world fame, Chick Webb:

"I was very reluctant to sign Fitzgerald... She was very clumsy and sloppy, like a diamond in the rough."

However, it was this collaboration that revealed such timeless jazz to the world hitsElla's first big success was "A-Tisket", which was an improvised children's counting song. Ella's first big success was "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", which was an improvised children's counting song. With this work for Fitzgerald opened the door to the world of big jazz.

Patsy Cline

One of the legendary performers of country music that has ever existed in musical history. In her short career, Patsy has managed to write down over a hundred excellent compositions.

Cline began recording songs in the mid-50s and five years later had already released 17 singles. However, the success of her early records did not achieve. This was due to the fact that the singer then had too little influence on the choice of performed material. However, this did not prevent her from recording some really interesting works in the rockabilly genre.

In the 60s, changing label and producer, Cline released her first big hit, "I Fall to Pieces," which soon topped the country charts, becoming a model for the so-called "Nashville sound" of country music at the time. Over the years, her voice became more luxurious and confident, and the live shows more emotional.

The culmination of Patsy's work was the composition "Crazy", written by Willie Nelson. The work is forever entered into world history as the benchmark recording of the "Nashville sound."

In the spring of 1963, Kline's brilliant career was cut short by a plane crash. The singer died at the age of 30. But her posthumous fame and influence grew with each passing decade. Today, Patsy Cline is considered the first performer to open the way for women in country music.

Janice Martin

This legendary performer has made a name for herself as one of the few women to conquer the genre rock 'n' roll. For her incredible dance moves on stage, similar to those of the perpetual king of rock 'n' roll, Martin was . dubbed "Elvis' woman."

At the age of 15, the girl signed a contract with RCA Victor, just months after Elvis Presley joined the label. She recorded the acclaimed "Will You Willyum" in March 1956, drawing on her own composition "Drugstore Rock 'n Roll".

As a result, the single became the biggest hit of Martin's career and sold 750,000 copies. Later, the girl appeared at the Jubilee USA and Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, becoming one of the youngest performers in the event's history.

Janis so impressed Presley and RCA with her manner that they nicknamed her "Elvis' woman". Later, the King of Rock 'n' Roll would even sent a dozen red roses to her when she showed up at the RCA Victor convention in Miami, Florida.

Young Martin's illustrious career was derailed by her earlier pregnancyRCA Victor cancelled her contract in 1958. In the years that followed, she was repeatedly returned to music, but she never achieved the same tremendous success.

Nina Simon

Nina Simone has made a name for herself as a multi-talented talent. genius The singer left an indelible mark on the world stage with her cool, contradictory character. The singer also left an indelible mark with her rather cool, controversial character.

She took the stage pseudonym in honour of her favourite actress Simone Signoret. Simone always tried to stick to the original jazz traditions, but often combined this genre in her works with blues, gospel, soul and pop. By the end of the 50s she had already released about ten albums.

Simone charmed the audience with live speechesOn which she was not only a superb singer with incredibly deep and flexible vocals, but also a pianist, dancer and actress.

In the mid-'60s, the world saw priceless a work called "I Put a Spell on You", which contained all of her most popular hits: "I Put a Spell on You", "Feeling Good" and "Ne me quitte pas".

A year later. out record "Wild is the Wind", the recordings from which represented a pronounced pop-soul. After this work, many critics began to name the woman "Priestess of Soul." The discs released by Nina by the end of the 60s no longer had the eclecticism and unpredictability of her early work.

The last years of Simon's life suffered from breast cancer, which eventually caused her death. Nina Simone died in the spring of 2003 in her mansion in the south of France. She was 70 years old at the time. Throughout her career, Simon released some 170 albums and singles, and gave the world more than 320 beautiful songs.

"The Shirelles"

The Shirelles girls. assembled together in 1958 in Passaic, New Jersey, where they were born, raised and dwelling all the band members.

The group soon became one of the most popular American female vocal groups of the late 50s and early 60s. "The Shirelles became one of the first pearl–bands of his time.

Throughout the 80s and even the 90s, The Shirelles continued in various forms congregate and give concerts for his fans, who even at that time were still very numerous.

In 1996, The Shirelles were. introduced The Shirelles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and at the height of the noughties were honoured as one of the best female musical groups of all time by the influential Rolling Stone magazine. In addition, the magazine included two songs by The Shirelles - "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and "Tonight's the Night" - in its famous "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

Tina Turner

This consummate woman is rightfully so. honoured Tina Turner has been named "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll" for her incredible artistry, temperament and stage magnetism. Tina Turner is the recipient of eight Grammy Awards.

She also included among the top ten most unrivalled dancers in the world. Turner was named "one of the greatest singers of our time" by Rolling Stone magazine.

In the first half of the '80s, Tina Turner made what would later be called "an astonishing comeback in rock music history." In the spring of 1984, there was released the acclaimed single "What's Love Got to Do With It?", which and dal a new round of fame for the performer.

Trek out in the run-up to Turner's new album. Just a few weeks after its release, the song was a smash hit on more than a hundred radio stations.

The track ended up going worldwide hitreaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It was "What's Love Got to Do With It?" that became officially recognised as Tina Turner's first and to date only American hit.

Diane Ross

Diana Ross is one of the influential and the most popular American female performers in history. In total, the star's musical career has seen her recorded nearly 60 studio albums and has sold over 150 million discs worldwide.

Ross is one of the few artists who has been honoured at once with a two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (one for her solo career and one for her career with The Supremes). In the late 90's Diana was included in VH1's list of "100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll". In 2005, Rolling Stone named the singer, along with The Supremes, one of the 100 greatest artists of all time.

According to recent expert estimates, Diana Ross' fortune amounts to over $150 million.